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...probably running the company through its most tumultuous time," said Jack Salzman, an analyst at Goldman Sachs...
That situation has stirred outrage, not only from patients but also from lawmakers, public health-insurance officials and many of the nation's prominent mental-health professionals. Last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Carl Salzman, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, called Sandoz's actions "monopolistic" and demanded that the drug company and health officials come to an agreement that would make the drug more accessible to "the patients for whom it is intended." Earlier this month, Democratic Senator David Pryor of Arkansas introduced legislation that would reduce Sandoz's control...
...which patients cannot get their weekly dose unless they provide Sandoz, or a company under contract to Sandoz, with a blood sample -- is no more than an elaborate form of gouging. "There are many, many ways to do the same job for a lot less money," said Harvard's Salzman. He and others argue that most hospitals and mental-health clinics could conduct the same testing at a lower cost. They point out that in Europe, where the blood testing is not mandatory, the drug costs only about $1,300 a year. Salzman calls the refusal of some state Medicaid...
Money is still important as an indicator of career performance, but crass materialism is on the wane. Marian Salzman, 31, an editor at large for the collegiate magazine CV, believes the shift away from the big-salary, big-city role model of the early '80s is an accommodation to the reality of a depressed Wall Street and slack economy. Many boomers expected to have made millions by the time they reached 30. "But for today's graduates, the easy roads to fast money have dried up," says Salzman...
...without making that final climb to the top. The leitmotiv of the new age: second place seems just fine. But young adults are flighty if they find their workplace harsh or inflexible. "The difference between now and then was that we had a higher threshold for unhappiness," says editor Salzman. "I always expected that a job would be 80% misery and 20% glory, but this generation refuses to pay its dues...